Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] come [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night .
2 He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office .
3 On the Sunday following the manor fire , as Tom , Seb , Dolly and Carrie left Swinbrook chapel after the morning service , Christian asked them to come to the farmhouse .
4 He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet .
5 But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink .
6 And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself .
7 ‘ This woman told me to come to the church and do some healing . ’
8 ‘ Exactly as he phoned me last night , and told me to come to the wedding . ’
9 I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest .
10 Yeah , they 're all listed are n't but as we came we came in the way we would come , I 'm a bit ignorant , so I suppose we were
11 It told him to come to the court on a certain day to defend himself before a Commissioner and the man who said he owed him money .
12 I told it to come to the Vecchio Reccione in Leicester Square at 9.30 , then I rang the restaurant and made a booking , using my PKB Amex card to confirm it .
13 The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect .
14 I originally gained the co-operated of the headmaster , who allowed me to come into the school , and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative in fact , far more co-operative than I really high a right to expect .
15 There was not a sound except the stamping hoofs and as she watched he allowed it to come to the ground , pacing it in that superb prancing way , its silken tail swaying .
16 Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs .
17 He stood back and glimpsed a face at an upstair window so he knocked again and after a delay he heard someone coming down the stairs .
18 I heard someone coming towards the door .
19 We both heard someone coming through the hall .
20 She was writing down a message when she heard someone come into the room and knew without turning that it was Robert .
21 Then she heard someone come through the bushes behind her — " Oh damn ! " she though : her friends had found her .
22 When , after an hour , she heard him coming up the stairs she pulled the sheets tightly around her , and then relaxed .
23 When Moran pressed her to come for the Christmas dinner , she refused .
24 I heard her come up the stairs .
25 Fred joined them and urged them to come to the cemetery in the funeral cars .
26 Two years ago at an exhibition centre gig the military two-step intro to their Top 20 hit She Comes in the Fall was played by Lancashire 's version of the Dagenham Girl Pipers .
27 He watched her come into the room and look about her .
28 They watched him come to the door .
29 That 's why I telephoned Eleanor last night and asked her to come to the house this morning .
30 Elizabeth made him come to the farmhouse .
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